In 49 B.C. on the banks of the Rubicon, Julius Caesar faced a critical choice. To remain in Gaul meant forfeiting his power to his enemies in Rome. Crossing the river into Italy would be a ...

Gaius Julius Caesar is marching southbound to the river Rubicon with an army. He pauses. To cross this river and move into Italy would amount to insurrection. Treason against the republic.

Crossing the Rubicon references a historic event with ... We stood by a statue of Julius Caesar on the eastern side of the river. The statue looks West across the Rubicon toward Rome.

Commentators love to compare Donald Trump’s norm-breaking ways to Julius Caesar’s momentous ... But for historians, Caesar’s crossing the Rubicon, more than 20 years earlier, was the ...

“Crossing the Rubicon” has come to mean taking a course ... one of the most famous and most mispronounced names in history. Gaius Julius Caesar (pronounced roughly as GAH-ee-oos YOO-lee ...